The Oscar-nominated actress will headline the FX drama challenge, Y, main an ensemble solid that features Imogen Poots, Barry Keoghan, Lashana Lynch, Juliana Canfield and Marin Ireland, the community introduced Wednesday. The challenge, from showrunners Michael Green and Aïda Mashaka Croal, was given a pilot order.

Based on DC Comics’ Y: The Last Man sequence by Brian Ok. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, Y traverses a post-apocalyptic world by which a cataclysmic occasion has decimated each male mammal save for one lone human. The new world order of ladies will discover gender, race, class and survival.

Lane will play Senator Jennifer Brown, a junior senator in her first time period who has made a reputation for herself in political circles for her willingness to put private beliefs over politics. She can also be the mom to Yorick and Hero Brown.

Meanwhile, Keoghan will play Yorick Brown, a younger man fast to use humor to deflect from his personal issues who often is the lone male survivor or a worldwide plague. Poots is ready to painting Hero Brown, a troublesome and assured EMT who nurses a deep emotional trauma that always leads her to cross private strains.

Lynch will play Secret Service Agent 355, who does her job with professionalism, even beneath essentially the most surprising circumstances. Canfield will likely be Beth, a Brooklyn-based knife maker who connects with Yorick on a romantic stage. Ireland is Nora, the president’s senior assistant and proper hand.

The information of Lane’s casting comes as she joined the ultimate season of Netflix’s House of Cards as sister to Greg Kinnear’s character following Kevin Spacey’s exit and is ready to star in Amazon Prime’s The Romanoffs.